Paris Commune

The Paris Commune (1789-1795) was the government of the city of Paris, France, after the French Revolution. With 144 delegates from 48 divisions of the city, it was centered in the Hotel de Ville in the Halles region of Paris. In 1792, it began to have extremist views and was dominated by the Jacobin Club of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Jacques Hebert. The commune perpetrated the massacre of 1,000 priests during the September Massacres of 2-7 September 1792 and the Reign of Terror from 1792 to 1794, killing 41,000 people. Eventually, Maximilien de Robespierre took over the commune and had Danton, Desmoulins, and Hebert executed for their actions against the Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre was declared a criminal by the National Convention on 27 July and he was captured in an assault on the Hotel de Villes during the "Thermidorian Reaction", which left many Paris Commune soldiers dead. Robespierre was executed a day later with all of those who supported him, and on 29 July 1791, Anne-Josephe Theroigne de Mericourt led the "Jacobin Raid", finishing the club off and ending the Reign of Terror.